Marriage with a Deceased Wife’s Sister.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1061, 15 April 1882, Page 3

Marriage with a Deceased Wife’s Sister.

Ax-awkwarci domestic difficulty has arisen in Long Island, New York, and Iras aroused ■much sympathy owing to the peculiar circumstances unde? which it has occurred. It seems that a married woman, who felt that her-e«d was approaching, and who was unduly sokeitOHs as to the fate of her six children, implored her husband to marry her younger sister, she being the only person fitted in her eyes to take clrarge of lier family. Her husband promised to -act in accordance with her wishes immediately after the funeral, and the sister also gave tlie same promise. The sick woman, however, was not satisfied. She feared that they would not be so good as their word, and entreated them to give her the consolation of knowing that her children would certainly be cherished after her departure, Worn out with her importunity, they finally consented to be married at once. The •ceremcmy accordingly took place ; when the invalid derived so much contentment from corHempteting the future of her little ones that she 'rapidly recovered from her illness, «nd gave proof of her convalescence by turning her sister out of the house aud disfiguring her husband’s face with lier finger-nails.